Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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rendezvous

UK /ˈɹɒndɪˌvuː/ · US /ˈɹɑndəˌvu/ noun, verb

Forms rendezvouses rendezvousing rendezvoused randezvous rendez-vous

  1. noun A meeting or date. “I have a rendezvous with a friend in three hours.”
  2. noun An agreement to meet at a certain place and time. “Get the party started at the rendezvous at oh six hours.”
  3. noun A place appointed for a meeting, or at which persons customarily meet.
  4. noun (military) The appointed place for troops, or for the ships of a fleet, to assemble; also, a place for enlistment.
  5. noun (astronautics) A set of orbital maneuvers during which two spacecraft arrive at the same orbit and approach to a very close distance.
  6. noun (obsolete) A retreat or refuge.
  7. verb (intransitive) To meet at an agreed time and place. “Let's rendezvous at the bordello at 8:00 and go from there.”

Synonyms

assignation meeting place RV tryst

Etymology

Borrowed from French rendez-vous (“appointment”), noun derived from second person plural imperative of se rendre (“to go to”), literally, “[you (imperative)] go to, get yourself to [a place]”.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A place appointed for a meeting, or at which persons customarily meet.
  2. noun Especially, the appointed place for troops, or for the ships of a fleet, to assemble; also, a place for enlistment.
  3. verb To assemble or meet at a particular place.
  4. verb To bring together at a certain place; to cause to be assembled.

Etymology [F. rendez-vous, properly, render yourselves, repair to a place. See Render.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “rendezvous”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “rendezvous” (best matches first).